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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

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